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  • American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D

    by Eric S. Hintz ...
    Series series Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation series
    How America's individual inventors persisted alongside corporate R&D labs as an important source of inventions.During the nineteenth century, heroic individual inventors such as Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell created entirely new industries while achieving widespread fame. However, by 1927, a New York Times editorial suggested that teams of corporate scientists at General Electric, AT&T, ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • Reading Young Adult Literature: A Critical Introduction

    by Carrie Hintz, Eric L. Tribunella ...
    Reading Young Adult Literature is the most current, comprehensive, and accessible guide to this burgeoning genre, tracing its history and reception with nuance and respect. Unlike any other book on the market, it synthesizes current thinking on key issues in the field and presents new research and original analyses of the history of adolescence, the genealogy of YA literature, key genres and modes ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Does America Need More Innovators?

    Edited by Matthew Wisnioski, Eric S. Hintz, Marie Stettler Kleine ...
    Series series Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation series
    A critical exploration of today's global imperative to innovate, by champions, critics, and reformers of innovation.Corporate executives, politicians, and school board leaders agree—Americans must innovate. Innovation experts fuel this demand with books and services that instruct aspiring innovators in best practices, personal habits, and workplace cultures for fostering innovation. But critics ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Reading Children’s Literature: A Critical Introduction - Second Edition

    by Carrie Hintz, Eric L. Tribunella ...
    Reading Children’s Literature offers insights into the major discussions and debates currently animating the field of children’s literature. Informed by recent scholarship and interest in cultural studies and critical theory, it is a compact core text that introduces students to the historical contexts, genres, and issues of children’s literature. A beautifully designed and illustrated supplement ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

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    Edited by Rishma Dunlop, Daniel Scott Tysdal, Priscila Uppal ...
    Essential and engaging essays about the joys and challenges of creative writing and teaching creative writing by a host of Canada’s leading writers.Writing Creative Writing is filled with thoughtful and entertaining essays on the joys and challenges of creative writing, the complexities of the creative writing classroom, the place of writing programs in the twenty-first century, and exciting ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Disturbing the Universe

    Power and Repression in Adolescent Literature

    by Roberta S. Trites ...
    The Young Adult novel is ordinarily characterized as a coming-of-age story, in which the narrative revolves around the individual growth and maturation of a character, but Roberta Trites expands this notion by chronicling the dynamics of power and repression that weave their way through YA books. Characters in these novels must learn to negotiate the levels of power that exist in the myriad social ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Graphic Novels and Comics in the Classroom

    Essays on the Educational Power of Sequential Art

    Edited by Robert G. Weiner, Carrye Kay Syma ...
    Sequential art combines the visual and the narrative in a way that readers have to interpret the images with the writing. Comics make a good fit with education because students are using a format that provides active engagement. This collection of essays is a wide-ranging look at current practices using comics and graphic novels in educational settings, from elementary schools through college. The ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Media Reception Studies

    by Janet Staiger ...
    A broad survey on how audiences make meaning out of mass mediaMedia Reception Studies broadly surveys the past century of scholarship on the ways in which audiences make meaning out of mass media. It synthesizes in plain language social scientific, linguistic, and cultural studies approaches to film and television as communication media.Janet Staiger traverses a broad terrain, covering the Chicago ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Empathy and the Novel

    by Suzanne Keen ...
    Does empathy felt while reading fiction actually cultivate a sense of connection, leading to altruistic actions on behalf of real others? Empathy and the Novel presents a comprehensive account of the relationships among novel reading, empathy, and altruism. Drawing on psychology, narrative theory, neuroscience, literary history, philosophy, and recent scholarship in discourse processing, Keen ... Read more

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  • Affective Ecologies

    Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative

    by Alexa Weik von Mossner ...
    Series series Cognitive Approaches to Culture
    Affective Ecologies: Empathy*,* Emotion, and Environmental Narrative explores our emotional engagement with environmental narrative. Focusing on the American cultural context, Alexa Weik von Mossner develops an ecocritical approach that draws on the insights of affective science and cognitive narratology. This approach helps to clarify how we interact with environmental narratives in ways that are ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Reading in the Dark

    Horror in Children's Literature and Culture

    Edited by Jessica R. McCort ...
    Series series Children's Literature Association Series
    Contributions by Rebecca A. Brown, Justine Gieni, Holly Harper, Emily L. Hiltz, A. Robin Hoffman, Kirsten Kowalewski, Peter C. Kunze, Jorie Lagerwey, Nick Levey, Jessica R. McCort, and Janani SubramanianDark novels, shows, and films targeted toward children and young adults are proliferating wildly. It is even more crucial now to understand the methods by which such texts have traditionally ... Read more

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  • Getting Inside Your Head

    What Cognitive Science Can Tell Us about Popular Culture

    by Lisa Zunshine ...
    Using the psychological concept called theory of mind, Lisa Zunshine explores the appeal of movies, novels, paintings, musicals, and reality television.Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRLWe live in other people's heads: avidly, reluctantly, consciously, unaware, mistakenly, and inescapably. Our social life is a constant negotiation among what we think we know about ... Read more

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